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www.MyMCR.net Vol. 47 No. 24
4 Sections 24 Pages Wednesday June 13, 2018
test scores
surging
By Diane Glidewell
news@mymcr.net
Monroe County
students showed a
big improvement in
almost all areas of
the state's Milestones
tests for 2017-18,
particularly at the
high school level, the
school board learned
at its June 12 meeting.
Monroe County
schools have received
preliminary scores
for the percent of
students scoring high
By Richard Dumas
forsyth@rnymcr.ner
Monroe County man-
ager Anita Buice has been
demoted and finance officer
Ashley Wooley fired after
commissioners learned the
county failed to pay federal
and state payroll taxes for
the second straight year,
incurring over $50,000 in
interest and penalties.
Commissioners demoted
Buice on Tuesday, five days
after Buice fired Wooley
upon discovering the penal-
ties. After Buice terminated
Wooley, Monroe County
commissioners held a called
meeting Monday morning
to discuss the matter. After
40 minutes in open session
with a handful of county
employees in attendance,
commissioners went behind
dosed doors for two hours
to discuss personnel and
litigation. However, no
action was taken after the
dosed session, chance
Commissioners then met zoning
again in a second called officer,
meeting at I p.m. on Tues- which
day. At the conclusion of a she ac-
two-and-a-half hour dosed cepted.
meeting to discuss person- Buice's
nel on Tuesday; Monroe salary
County commission chair- dipped
man Greg Tapley revealed from
Buice had been removed $68,529
as county manager. He said to
due to Buice's "value to $45,017
the" community and to the as a result
county" she was offered the of her
to stay on as county place,
BUICE WOOLSEY
commissioners ap-
proved
human
re-
sources
director
Janet
Ab-
bott as
interim
county
derk
demotion. In Buice's See COUNTY Page 4C
enough (at level II,
III and IV) to pass
for their grade level
and also weighted
See
Page 5C
TO THE FAMILY
W A Marler
Jeanette Weaver
NEW SUBS CRIBEP, S
OF THE WEEK
By Will Davis of Arcadia, Fla was Toyota Camry on 1-75.
pubhsher@mymcr.net pronounced dead on A Monroe County
the scene. The passen- deputy had stopped
A Florida man was ger, Luis A. Perez, 19, Garcia around 3:19
killed and his passenger also of Arcadia, Fla p.m. on June 7 on
severely injured after was taken to Macon's 1-75 North near mile
Monroe County depu- Medical Center Navi- marker 192, one mile
ties used the PIT me- cent Health, where he south of lohnstonville
neuver to stop a vehicle was listed in critical Road, for a window tint
in a high-speed chase condition, violation. Shortly after
on Hwy. 42 North on The chase started deputies Jarred Dun-
Thursday afternoon, when Garcia sped
The driver, Guada- away from a traffic
lupe A. Garcia, 28, stop in a 2007 silver See PURSUIT Page 7A
Ruth Z. Krysak
Robert Lee Moore
Don Edwin Simpson
Chad Allen Ryser
Earnest Barkley Sr.
INDEX ,
MCR VENT. 3A
Opinion & Letters 4A-SA.
Sports lB
Community Calendar. 4C
Church News 5C
Public Record 3B
Classified 1D
Legds 2D-4D
The Monroe County Reporter
was named one of the best news-
papers in the state on Friday by
the Georgia Press Association.
The Reporter won eight awards
for journalistic achievement in
2017 that all told earned the news-
paper billing as the second-best
weekly its size for overall General
Excellence.
The awards were presented on
Friday night at the 132nd annual
convention of the Georgia Press
Association at the Jekyll Island
Club Hotel.
The heart of the Reporter, its edi-
torial pages,'once again grabbed
first place in the very competitive
and largest division of weekly
papers in Georgia, earning the
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coveted J.C. Williams Trophy.
Journalists from Oklahoma and
Kansas, who judged the contest,
lauded the Reporter's lively opin-
ion section.
"The Reporter won first place
with its layout and ability to draw
interests from readers" the judges
commented. "The pages include
the opinions of concerned parents,
military veterans, local graduates,
and the staff, both as a whole and
individually, and a lot more. The
cutouts at the top are real sharp"
The Reporter's opinion pages
have now won best in the state in
2017, 2016 and 2010.
See AWARDS Page 7A
Local firefighters spent hours Monday night battling a blaze that erupted
shortly after 8 p.m. at a mostly vacant warehouse on East Adams Street.
The fire, which was reported by passers by who saw smoke, occurred
at a cotton mill formerly used by Trio Manufacturing. The building is
owned by Howell Newton, who is reportedly on an overseas trip. A ten-
ant of the building, Gil Stroupe, was present at the scene and said the
only items damaged inside the building were some plastic palates and
chairs. Stroupe said most of his machinery and other valuable items were
in other parts of the building that did not receive significant damage.
City of Forsyth, Monroe County, Butts County and Macon-Bibb County
firefighters all responded to the scene, and Forsyth fire chief David Hem-
don lauded the performance of all members of the crews. Herndon said
clue to the size and age of the building, it was a particularly dangerous
undertaking.to fight the fire. Herndon said lightning was the probable
cause of the fire, but Forsyth Deputy Chief Davis Norris will undertake a
full investigation.
I
Reporter
staff
(clockwise
starting top
left) Diane
Glidewell,
Will Davis,
Richard
Dumas,
Trellis Grant
and Carolyn
Martel hold
the newspa-
per's many
awards. Not
pictured:
Brandon
Park. (Photo/
Abby Cox)
